There is a lot of judgment in our faces right now. We are watching judgment being played out politically, racially, and economically. Everyone is feeling not only the right, but the righteous duty, to stand in judgment of everyone else. It is the belief that judgment...

That was the question that awoke me in the middle of the night. I was having a dream about my dad. We were sitting on an embankment of a river, fishing. He used to take me fishing every Wednesday. Wow. I’d forgotten all about that. As I lay awake at the ripe...

That was my mother’s greatest legacy and message to me: believe in yourself. She must have taken her own advice. My mother was born into a family of six children. Her father, my grandfather, was a railroad worker. Her mother, my grandmother, was a devout...

Today is the one year anniversary of my daughter’s wedding (9/4/15). This time last year, we were busy shuffling things to the wedding site, coordinating catering, applying make-up, wrangling family while mounting excitement prevailed over all. It was a joyful...

As I typed in the title of today’s eblast, I can hear Aretha Franklin screaming the song in my ear: R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me! In following the breadcrumbs that inevitably lead to core issues, the subject of respect roared itself loudly to the...